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What's the piece of technology that has impacted the modern world the most? (lemm.ee)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If you ask me? Mobile/WiFi internet... The way and amount of time we use our phones had changed A LOT since their diffusion. I guess the release of the iPhone changed our idea of what a phone is too

Edit: when I say modern world I'm referring to the last 50 years. So stuff like "the electricity" or "the telephone" doesn't count.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It depends on what you mean by piece of technology I guess, since what we have now is a culmination of thousands of awesome tech over the last few hundred years.

If I were to choose one thing, I'd say the telephone. It's the predecessor to the internet, and suddenly communication between people was instant rather than messages that'd take forever (or morse for the places that had it).

It probably changed the world forever, being able to talk to someone in a completely different country and share something quickly.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I can't call in 2024 the era when telephones came out "modern" anymore

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, you didn't say it had to be a modern technological invention, just that it impacted the modern world

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Tobefaaaaair

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Ancient Egypt would disagree.